The number of patients without a bed at hospitals across Ireland has risen significantly over the last 24 hours.
The Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation is today reporting 361 people are being cared for on trolleys – up 76 on Tuesday.
University Hospital Limerick is still the most overcrowded in the country with 44 people waiting for a bed – down just 1 from yesterday.
There’s been a considerable hike in the number of patients on trolleys around the Emergency Department or in overflow areas of wards as South Tipp General in Clonmel – it’s gone from 2 yesterday to 15 today.